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No matter how old you are, life never starts too late, and I'm afraid to never start.
Author | Donkey Uncle
Source | Riding a Donkey (ID: qilvtravel)
A face of 89 years old
A heart of 18 years old
The people who love to travel are really not average
Ever wondered what your 89th year would look like?
On the way to getting old, there are only two ways to live: some people live a tired, old age; some people live a relaxed, old age beautiful.
There is also a real forever 18 years old.
Such as the 89-year-old girl who has always been at the forefront of trends, Riverside.
"I chat on WeChat for two hours a day and brush my friend circle;
I take a drop to the supermarket every week and eat Pizza Hut;
I use 'Pinduoduo' to find bargains;
I know that fresh meat is a young, handsome young man. ......"
When she says these words, you'll understand why I'd refer to the gray-haired grandmother in front of me, as a girl.
She has the curiosity of a young man, the desire to learn, and the passion in a young man, and has even done what many young people think but do not dare to do.
At the age of 79, in the company of her daughter, Grandma Jiang started her first trip abroad.
And then it was like opening a new world, and it was uncontrollable.
The traveler who owes his life to his youth will have to pay himself back even if it's too late to do so.
So Grandma Jiang started her world tour.
But because she was too old, the trip didn't go so smoothly, and it was even more challenging and adventurous for the onlookers.
The U.S. and New Zealand are reluctant to issue visas, and on long-haul airplanes, the captains and flight attendants are always nagging for more.
But none of this could stop her from measuring the world.
Not willing to issue a visa, Jiang grandmother together with her daughter wrote a joint pledge to ensure that the elderly health, as well as accidents by their own, until the embassy released.
Worried about flying too long?
You see fly South Africa for 18 hours, peer young people feet are swollen, Jiang grandmother all the way hale and hearty, easy to crush.
Worrying about jet lag?
Worrying about your legs?
So many people in the melon stoned, square dance can not afford the age,
She in New Zealand to experience the glacier rafting adventure;
She in Switzerland in the helicopter on the snowy mountains;
She in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to see the windy high waves;
Life from the beginning of the no too late, travel is also.
From the first time she traveled abroad in 2009, the large world map was gradually covered with her small footprints, and so far she has traveled to more than 10 countries, including the United States, France, Switzerland, South Africa and Thailand.
In 2017, she simply sold her house and continued to travel around the world , and this year she also intends to go to Japan to see ......
In this regard, some people say that she is handsome, some people say that she is stupid, and some people open the bow of dissing the elderly: the family must be rich, more than A suite of ......
In this regard, a long time to live through the grandmother of the river, a general laugh over.
For her, selling your home means pursuing a better life experience in limited conditions, and being happy for the rest of your life.
But life hasn't been smooth for such a perennially happy and dashing senior citizen.
01
Born in Hangzhou in the 1930s, the family had 11 siblings, and Grandma Jiang was the seventh in line.
The family environment was quite favorable, but at the age of 17, Grandma Jiang responded to the call of the revolution and became a member of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
In the chaos of the war, along the Suzhou, Nanjing, Beijing all the way to the north, she encountered the cruel war, but also saw the motherland beautiful mountains and rivers.
After liberation, she specialized as a nurse and met the love of her life there.
Grandma Jiang's husband spoke fluent English and was a graduate of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and soon after their relationship, they tied the knot and had a son and a daughter.
But life didn't settle down.
In 1977, her husband was transferred to Qinghai, she first followed to settle in Qinghai, and then transferred to Yuhang, she officially began to live apart from her husband, a life of 30 years.
The days when they were separated from each other, they could only rely on writing letters to know each other's recent situation and tell each other their feelings.
Until 2005, when her husband retired, the family was reunited.
But the good times didn't last long. Soon after, Grandma Jiang's son was killed in a car accident, and her husband passed away.
Inside the loneliness and heartache, she "downplayed", but the unbearable pain of life, unbearable weight, so she felt like she was swallowed up by grief, almost completely crushed her.
How many times did she not want to go on?
But in the end, she chose to break out of her grief and face the unbearable pain of her later years head on.
So, at the age of 79, she had her first trip abroad;
So, at the age of 87, she sold her house and traveled around the world, enjoying the rest of her life;
So, in the last 10 years, she traveled to more than a dozen countries, which is more than the young people also wilful .......
Traveling, for Grandma Jiang, is not only entertainment, but also a kind of inventory of life, a self-healing, a life sublimation.
The story of the grandmother of Jiang broke out online, attracted countless netizens praise:
Jiang grandmother has a 89-year-old face and a heart of 18 years old.
I wish I could be like this when I am old.
This is living to understand.
02
I read a sentence before: we are the last generation to filial parents, and in the future, we will be the generation abandoned by our children; we are the last generation who need to support their parents, and the first generation of children who can not support us.
In the eyes of many people, a nursing home is a place full of injuries, illnesses, loneliness and coldness.
But after selling her house, Grandma Jiang chose to live in a senior citizen's home in Yuhang.
She said:
" A lot of older people don't want to go to a nursing home, but I don't think the same as they do, and I think it's quite nice. "
"Cohabitation" is popular in Germany, and Grandma Jiang wants to play her own sunset with people her own age.
There is only one room in the nursing home, a cupboard, a table, a bed, a sofa, a refrigerator, a washing machine, a TV, an induction cooker and a microwave oven.
Jiang grandmother with documents and bank cards, simple handbag to move in.
The moment she checked in, she was completely enlightened: People ah, most of the life of the accumulated wealth, in fact, are not their own, they actually only belong to the world, we at best is to look at, play a game, with a use.
Since life doesn't bring, death doesn't bring, it's better to try to experience.
And the lively and cheerful Grandma Jiang, who is the head of the 7th floor, is now the star old man of the apartment.
Usually, she wakes up at five o'clock every day and makes her own breakfast.
Then she walks with her neighbors, goes to the gym, and plays mahjong with them.
The apartment also organizes activities for the elderly. On Monday afternoons, they organize singing, and on Wednesday afternoons, they organize handicrafts.
In order to make everyone have a good time, Grandma Jiang also organizes the old companions on the 7th floor, every Thursday morning K song.
"The Grassland Rises the Sun that Never Falls" is the floor song I chose and must sing every time."
Also from time to time to give the administrator suggestions to organize climbing mountains, watching movies activities.
2 years ago, Jiang grandmother began to contact the smartphone, a variety of App is also playing 666.
Jiang grandmother also play WeChat, but also took a fashionable nickname "happy fruit Bin", video phone calls, take pictures, send a circle of friends is not at all easy to say, you look at the nine-gang circle of friends slip it.
Jiang grandmother also played the WeChat, but also a fashionable nickname "happy fruit Bin", video phone calls, take pictures, send a circle of friends is not at all easy, you look at the nine-gang circle of friends slip it?
Jiang grandmother like and old sisters shopping supermarkets, go out common net car APP.
After shopping supermarkets, we also eat a KFC, Pizza Hut, and so on, 89 years old, life than 18 years old are colorful.
By the end of the week, Grandma Jiang went back to her daughter's house.
Home has the coziness of home, and the apartment has the comfort of an apartment.
It turns out that when you're old, the biggest thing you can rely on is not your kids, but your heart, and you'll be able to live your life in style even after all these years.
03
We can't predict the outcome of our lives, nor can we control the length of our lives.
But before the end of life, I really envied the grandmother, frankly old, become the world a vulgar landscape; do their best to live every day, let the ordinary day become extraordinary and flavorful.
Life can only sleep in a bed, live in a room, but can have the whole world, it is better to do your best to experience, this is the most due to the essence of the people living!
The beginning of a person's aging is to stop traveling.
And you have to believe that no matter how old you are, life never starts too late, it just doesn't.
It's all about the journey, it's all about the journey, it's all about the journey.
- THE END -
? Donkey Riding (ID: qilvtravel) , by Donkey Uncle. Burnt insights published with permission.
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